Bottle carrier



E. H. LUPTON BOTTLE CARRIER Jan. 4, 1949.

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Patented Jan. 4, 1949 UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE Bartgis Bros. Compa land ny, a corporation of Mary- Application October 20, 1944, Serial No. 559,492

1 Claim. 1

This invention refers to cardboard containers and more particularly to those used as carriers for bottles, especially those of the beverage type. Primarily the structure is a development from application Serial No. 549,881, now abandoned. The objects of this development is to require less material for the use of the carrier; to provide a stronger form; to have the blank semi-formed for use and at the same time adapted to be folded fiat when packed for shipment or stored for future use; and also to avoid the use of staples or stitching to hold its parts in position and together.

Other objects will become apparent as the invention is more fully set forth.

Ther are other types of carriers usable for carrying bottles in the hands or the prospective users and while same are based primarily for the purpose of providing a light and economical package their structures are usually weakened at various locations in their parts as to make them less suitable for this use and more susceptible to possible mechanical objections in the cutting of the blanks; forming the parts together; and arranging the carrier for reception of the bottles. In this invention, the blanks are cut in accordance with the prospective use and in such a manner as to give strength in parts that were weak in previous structures, and enable the carrier to be readily formed into a convenient receptacle.

In the drawings is shown an example of a device of this nature, by way of illustration. This device embodies the principles of this invention, and its views in the drawings are as follows:

Figure l is a front view of the blank cut-out embodying this invention, from which the carrier is made, dotted lines indicating bending lines and speckled portions indicating adhesive material;

Figure 2 is a view showing the container carrier partially formed;

Figure 3 is an end elevation of the carrier in partially collapsed form;

Figure 4 is a plan view of the device com-' pletely assembled, with articles (bottles) indicated in position therein in dotted outline;

Figure 5 is a side elevation of Figure 4;

Figure 6 is an end elevation of Figure 4; and

Figure 7 is a diagram showing steps in forming carrier from the blank.

Similar reference characters refer to similar parts throughout the drawings.

In the drawings a blank I is cut to the contour indicated, which consists primarily oi two end wall flaps 2 and 3; two bottom flaps I and 5; and two opposite end wall flaps 6 and I. These parts are respectively connected integrally with the side wall 8, the bottom piece 9 and the opposite side wall Ill. The various dotted lines cross the blank indicating where the blank is folded to form the carrier for holding bottles which this structure is intended for. The diagrams in Figure 7 show the various steps A, B, C, D and E employed in bending the blank to form the carrier.

At F is shown an end view of E. The arrows are provided to indicate the direction in which the bends are to be bent for the position in the following step.

The lines ll, I2, 13 and H as well as 2|, 22, 23, and 24, indicate the angular cut or separation of the parts of the blank intended to form symmetrical side walls of the carrier for holding the bottles f5 towards the middle partition members. Adhesive I6 is applied as shown on the drawings for fastening the respective surfaces of the blank together when folded against one another.

The flaps 2 and 3 are angularly slotted to provide slots l'l adapted to align with the handle openings ill in the walls 8 and i0, when the blank is folded to step B. The flaps 6 and I are folded onto the wall III as shown in step D. The bottom flaps 4 and 5 are folded flat and cemented to the bottom 9, the diamond shaped holes l9 serve to allow the middle bending" of the bottom for folding the carrier fiat when not in use and for drainage. 1

The angular lines 20 around the handle portlons of the carrier serve togive a conventional appearance to the handle when the blank is bent into its finished shape. In Figure 5 is shown the form of the carrier when assembled with bottles in its chambers 25, which are separated by the partition pieces 26 that are developed from the use of the lines ll, l2, l3 and H; as well as 2|, 22, 23 and 24 when the carrier is bent out from its flattened form, to take the bottles. The edges 21 and 28 in Figure 5 are on the partitions holding the bottles. The partitions extend out at right angles from the middle partitions 40 that support the carrier when carried by the hand of the user. These partitions are derived from the parts 2, 3, 6, I, 8 and Ill after they are brought into assembly.

Attention is called to the fact that the edges 28 are above the plane of edges 21. Also the lines II and 2| are out beyond bend line 29 towards the middle line of the blank so as to form a triangular bracket 30 (see Figure 5) to strengthen the structure where the side and end walls join at this side of the carrier. This bracket is not necessary on theopposite side of the carrier because the lines f4 and 24 are cut to provide a substantial bracket piece 3| to take up the stress and to prevent tearing same when the bottlesare put in and in use. This in practice has been' found to prevent thedamaging of the corners of the carrier, which in carrier forms without it, was prevalent.

The extensions 32 and 33 on the flaps 2 and 3 respectively enable the flaps to be additionally fastened. It is thus seen that the blank consists of a handle section, an auxiliary handle section and a bottom section joined contiguously with one another.

While but one general form-of the invention is shown in the drawings and described in the specifications, it is not desired to limit' this application for patent to this particular form or in any other way otherwise than limited by the scope thereof, as itis appreciated that other forms of construction could be made that would usethe same principles and come within the scope of the appended claim.

Having thus described the invention, what is claimed is:

' A bottle carrier for sustaining two rows of "bottles stacked vertically therein, a single bank of material segregated into three sections integrally connected with one another, one of said sections being in the middle of the blank between a handle section on one side and an auxiliary handle section on the other, said middle other surfaces, the handle section aforesaid being cut to provide two full width end wall flaps bendable on creases connecting them to the middle portion of said handle section trans-,

versely across same, each of said end wall flaps being provided with extensions with angular terminal portions for a greater portion of the side of the flap, the remainder of the side of 4 each of the said flaps being cut out to provide an open slot forming half the opening of a handle hole and opening towards said side, the middle portion of the section being cut outto form a relatively large space between it and one of said flaps and disposed opposite to the crease where the wall section connects to the middle section and with the cut border angularly contoured and "apexed into the middle portion, the wall section between said opening and the opposite flap of the wall section being angularly slitted and creased to form a quasi-saw tooth contour and bendable from the outer portion of the middle portion'towards the one side of the wall section, said middle portion including a handle opening therein alignable with said slots when the end flaps are bent over in flat contact with said middle portion to form a handle having double thickness of material encompassing it, said auxiliary section being symmetrically cut out to conform with that (if the handle section but with its end flaps of approximately half the width and without extensions, the handle and auxiliary handle sections when bent to form said walls having the portions included in the quasi-saw tooth contour benttowards each other for receptacles for containing bottles on opposite sides and resting on said bottom, said middle portions including adhesive in predetermined areas 'to permit the sections to be fastened together thereby to retain the form of the receptacles and strengthen the carrier, the formation of the receptacles being such that the quasi-saw tooth contour brings the edges of some above the edges of the remainder and the blank when assembled into its carrier form provides for a quadruple thickness of material as a spacing partition between the rows of bottles, and the bottom flaps bent over the carrier bottom to reinforce it.

ELMER H. LUPTON.

REFERENCES CITED The following references are of record in the mile of this patent:

UNITED STATES PATENTS Number Name Date 2,273,266 Himes Feb. 1'7, 1942 2,318,807 Slevin May 11, 1943 2,322,396 Slevin June 22, 1943 2,351,528 Lupton June 13, 1944 2,367,066 Slevin Jan. 9, 1945 

